Open Source BSD MP3 Software

This is the fast and Free (LGPL license) real time MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2 and 3 decoding library and console player. It uses floating point or integer math, along with several special optimizations (3DNow, SSE, ARM, ...) to make it most efficient.

LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!

MAD is a high-quality fixed-point MPEG audio decoder with 24-bit output. The implementation is entirely new, based on the ISO/IEC standards, and performs especially well on systems without native floating-point support.

A portable MP3/WMA/OGG/FLAC file manager for Sony players. Simply copy it on your usb player and use it wherever you are! It is an alternative to SonicStage. (Was NW-E00x Mp3 File Manager...)

QUIMUP is a client for the music player daemon (MPD) written in C++ and QT6. New version 2.1.0 fixes some problems and adds two new features: 1. Album art size can be set (within limits). 2. User actions to run commands or scripts on files or directories. DEB package for Debian (12 or testing) / Kubuntu 24.04 RPM packages for Fedora (40) and openSUSE (Tumbleweed) Tarball for manual installation of the binary. Tarball with source code.

"Squeezebox is the smartest way to stream MP3s and Internet radio to your stereo without loss of sound quality." (Slim Devices) SoftSqueeze is a java software implementation of the Squeezebox allowing your PC to stream the same music as your Squeezebox. The source code for Softsqueeze is now on github. https://github.com/ralph-irving/softsqueeze3 The sourceforge cvs repository marked as read-only.

mpg321 is a completely Free drop-in replacement for mpg123. It has been designed to work as a drop-in replacement for mpg123, for the use of front ends, shell scripts, etc. It does all mp3 decoding using the high-quality integer-only MAD library.

Mixxx is a free and open-source DJ software that enables DJs to create professional live mixes using digital music files. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it accessible to DJs across all major platforms. Mixxx supports both beginners using just a laptop and experienced DJs using advanced hardware setups. Built-in BPM and key detection help DJs quickly find compatible tracks and achieve smooth transitions. With strong community-driven development, Mixxx is continuously improved by DJs and programmers from around the world. As a fully open-source project, Mixxx is and will always remain free to use.

cmus, also known as the C* Music Player is a small yet fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. It comes with a number of great features, such as gapless playback, ReplayGain support, MP3 and Ogg streaming, easy-to-use directory browser, powerful playlist filters / live filtering and more. cmus also supports several input and output plugins. Input plugins include: Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Opus, Musepack, WavPack, WAV, AAC, MP4, audio CD and more. Output plugins include: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, JACK, RoarAudio, CoreAudio, libao, among others.

rePear is a tool that allows using an Apple iPod audio player without iTunes. The user can manage the audio files on the iPod with a normal file manager and rePear takes care that they can be played on the device.

SnackAmp is a powerful multi-platform audio music (mp3, ogg ,wav, streams ...) player and organizer for large music collections. Manage your entire collection, including ID3 tagging and auto-playlisting. Integrated web server for remote control/strea

NW-E00x Mp3 File Manager was meant to replace the Sony Mp3 File manager. The project grew and became JSymphonic a reviewed version with more features. This program is no longer maintained, please visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/symphonic/

A cool visual effects program that runs on almost every multimedia players.

Provide a user-level API (C library) for communicating with the Creative NOMAD Jukebox MP3 players and Dell DJs under Linux, *BSD and Windows. The protocol in question is colloquially known as "PDE" (Portable Digital Entertainment). It includes simple

A simple graphical MTP client for UNIX and UNIX like systems. It supports all MTP based devices including MP3 players, Media Players, Tablets and Mobile Phones.

A front-end to various audio players, including mpg123. It includes playlists, skins (themes), and many other options.

Amarok - advanced audio player for KDE.

Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE. It supports all kinds of local and network media and digital video broadcasting (DVB). At the moment Kaffeine can use xine-lib or GStreamer as backend.

A port of the Linux kernel and tools to the iPod.

JACo MP3 Player is a cross platform java mp3 player. Features: very low CPU usage (~2%), incredible small library (~90KB), doesn't need JMF, easy to integrate in any application, easy to integrate in any web page (as applet).

GUI (lesstif) frontend program to provide similar functionality that the windows software provides for the Eiger Labs MPMAN F10 & F20 portable MP3 players

Fastest Video player Build Using FFPLAY and FFMPEG Multi-Media Library with Python and Very easy to Control from KeyBoard and runs very fast as ffplay runs.

curses-based mp3 and ogg vorbis player for unix-like systems

AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. For the last updates and the current development, check https://github.com/alsaplayer/alsaplayer

Ever wondered how to set simple alarms in your OS. Simply run this application set the time your favorite song. Sweet melody will inform you that the time is up.